aakashnigam

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   by aakashnigam 11y ago

   Sorry, my bad for missing it out. Montreal/Waterloo are equally great.
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   by aakashnigam 11y ago

   Hi DilipKumar, Some unsolicited advice. Starting company = solving lots of problems (product, market, tech, hiring etc etc.) See Immigration as just one of these. Canada, with much easier immigration policies (Toronto/Vancouver) can b
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   by aakashnigam 11y ago

   Hope YC India is real some day!
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   by aakashnigam 11y ago

   Any advice on differentiating such idea in the YC application, from the herd, building services (an app/website where good design, paired with user traction stands out)? Shall we focus on? A. Research side (the actual research ideas,
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   by aakashnigam 11y ago

   This can be a good hack around the broken immigration system, if it ever happens! No matter how good the founder or team is, an idea requires at-least 3-4 months of nourishment to crystallize into something promising. Unfortunately, on H1B
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   by aakashnigam 11y ago

   Some idea that is (a) technically complex enough to baffle most PhDs but (b) practical enough to constitute the core of an amazing demo. An idea with technical depth, plus practical feasibility does provides an all-important barrier to ent
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   by aakashnigam 11y ago

   What would be the right time for an idea that involves some technical depth to apply to YC? In other words, hypothetically, if YC had existed during the 90s, at what stage should Google Guys have applied to YC (Between 1995-1998, A) when t